Spooky Canada

Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and other Local Lore

by S.E. Schlosser

"It comes," Summer Moon intoned. "It comes with the storm! It comes!" Her words ended in a terrible shriek. The villagers drew back, wives shrinking behind their husbands; children huddling against their mothers' skirts. Only the chief dared face the frenzied wise woman. "What comes, good mother?" he asked. She turned her glowing, silvery eyes upon him. "Wendigo," she hissed, and the word seemed to echo unnaturally through the crisp autumn air. "Wendigo."

Meet Summer Moon, a wise woman who predicts the coming of a terrible creature to prey upon her village. Summer Moon is just one of 30 spooky characters found in this folklore collection by S.E. Schlosser. You will also encounter:

Black Bartelmy, an evil pirate whose ghost still preys upon the living

Kate, a ghost who refuses to rest in peace while she remains buried next to her ex-husband

Jean-Claude Baptiste, who contracts with the Devil for the use of his flying canoe

La Corriveau, an evil creature who stalks the good people of Quebec City

Plus 25 other ghosts and spooky creatures, from the Lure in Vancouver to the Lady in White in New Brunswick.

About the AuthorS. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built themselves into full-length stories. A graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature and Rutgers University, she also created and maintains the Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all fifty states, some dating back to the origins of America.

About the IllustratorPaul G. Hoffman trained in painting and printmaking, with his first extensive illustration work on assignment in Egypt, drawing ancient wall reliefs for the University of Chicago. His work graces books of many genres--children's titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and numerous cookbooks. For the Spooky series he employed a scratchboard technique and an active imagination.